Notice and Review of the Reliquiae Diluvianae. 317 
relative position. The appearance was noticed in other 
places ; though it is not known that any one has before 
described it. It vanished a little before the tail of the 
Comet ; after having been a few days visible. a 
ew-Haven, August 9th. 
Arr. XXIX. —WNotice and Review of the Retiquisz Dinv- 
viaNnaE 3; or Observations on the Organic Remains con- 
tained in Caves, Fissures, and Diluvial Gravel, and on 
other Geological Phenomena, attesting the action of an 
ever. meee By the Rev. Wituiam Buckrianp, 
or Sx; Ke F. L. S., Member of the Geol. 
Soc. mons ia Memb. ‘Aimer. Geol. Soc., &e. &e., 
and Professor of Mineralogy and Geology in the Uni- 
versity of Oxford. Quarto, pp. 303—37 plates. Lon- 
don, 1823 
[Concluded from page 168 of this eee 
THE second cavern visited by Professor Buckland was 
also in the vicinity of Kirkdale ; being discovered a short 
time after the one we have so particularly described. This 
cave agreed in every respeet with the one containing 
bones, except that the bones and the inferior stalagmitic 
covering, were wanting. ‘The mud was six feet deep, and 
Over its surface, in most parts, was spread a crust of sta- 
lagmite. Several other caverns and vertical fissures oc- 
cur on ope mile of the one just mentioned, and agree 
raps 
ich, gramini 
would | ie more likely to fall than bests of prey. An in- 
Stance of this occurs in a cave near Ppptsworth, in Der- 
